Yaw Kyeremateng - "Ancestral Ghosts" @WANPOETRY (TGS 2018)
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Yaw Kyeremateng performing "Ancestral Ghosts" at the 2018 Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival at Murphy's Law: / imbibing.emporium
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“You do not get to feel....” REPEATTT
Period.
They were shooting at his blackness not his accent.... Beautiful
his culture and heritage not his blackness
Jasmine Pearls how did they know his culture and heritage?
“Pause. You don’t get to feel” 😩
I like Yaw's poems before I even watch them
He's that amazing
"Wo tuuntum sin adi3 nyinaa " Ghana 🇬🇭 stand up! 🙌🏾❤️
I thought I head something about Ghana
Represent 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
This one is for me, and for all the other African poets. Love it
This is so powerful! Oh my gosh! Yassssss! This is an important poetic statement. It's something that many need to hear. Divide and conquer is widening the divide. Those in the know must speak up and out. Share the wisdom. Just beautiful. The ancestors are smiling...
It's not divide and conquer black Americans (black people who aren't and recent Africans immgrants, caribbeans and latinos) have a 300-400 year history. People like Queen Latifah, Wanda Sykes, can trace their family back to the 1600 and 1700s that's a totally different experience. People have a way of thinking of America as just as immigrant country but after 300-400 just like in the Caribbeans your place of origin is set like dye. An african simply moving to the U.S. does not have the same heritage, perspectives and customs as a black American. For instance, most of our culture is from the U.S. south. That affects the foods we eat, what we call our grandmothers granny and big mama, it affects our dialect. "She binnuh messed around and burned down my house". That's not slang thats how our parents how their parents speak. It's no different from Salone Krio, Nigerian and Ghanaian pidgin. Zora Neale Hurston collected black american folklore which was always set in the U.S. south. Her stories like Their Eyes Were Watching God highlighted black American heritage those who came out of slavery building and settling in towns in Eatonville, Florida. That's not his heritage that's what people are trying to get across to him it's not just about him being black it's about his culture and history.
All I can say is wow. The pain and the passion I literally felt
I’m surprise this does not have more views this should have over 1 million views
Why it only hightlights that he doesn't respect that a people with a well over 300 year history have their own experience and heritage he simply thinks being black means he can latch himself onto a history that he doesn't belong to. That's like a black American claiming to be afrolatino simply because they are black. Its seems like no one has to respect boundaries with black Americans but everyone can lock the door on black american when we enter their spaces. I onced asked if I could be a black Colombian as a joke and this black Colombians said "what how could you be colombian?' So why is this absurd idea accepted when this African guy pretends to understand someone else's history? He does not eat cornbread, mac n cheese, collard greens, fried breaded okra that's a black American cultural experience. He didn't grow up singing in a southern black gospel style. He does not do ring shout.
@@thewordsmith5440 white supremacy uses the same tools whether here or there brother... we have been colonized, beaten, murdered, raped, disenfranchised in every place you find us on this globe just go look it up... we must respect our cultures of where we landed(language, food, fashion) but the white supremacy experience is the same wherever you go. We must fight together not separate(only with the descendants of brown skin people who are serious about our liberation wherever you find us) B1
@@andrewchatelain8781 thank u❤
This is so good. And it is long overdue. Divide-and-rule is still in the works, and people keep falling for it. There is nothing more stupid than a person who knows their enemy's strategy, knows it is used through folks who look like them, and who choose to fall for it anyway. Afro Brazilians, Angolans, Afro Jamaicans, Senegalese, African Americans, Afro Brits, Ethiopians, Blackfellas, Afro Cubans ... we are THE SAME PEOPLE.
That ADOS movement is antithetical to Pan Africanism they need to quit. #blackpeopleunite
Exactly!!!! African Swedish here ❤
Wao! am very proud of you "Yaw Kyeremateng" and proud to be an African
As a Ghanaian... this is exceptional
This poem made me cry. This is everything
💯💯💯 same sentiments. We are seen the same and it's all our issues.
This gave me my whole life!
Amen brotha from the other side of the park much love here my West African bredren 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 🌍 🇬🇭
Just shows that we can always try to be nicer and not judge anyone..
It's not his experience he is a new immigrant or an exchange student so how would he be able to speak for a 300 yr history? I can't move to Kenya and say I had the Kenyan experience can I?
Best
Oh my God this man😭😭❤️❤️🙌🔥🔥
This was so powerful!!!!!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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Fantastic! Absolutely amazing!!!
This shit was dope
outstanding 👏
“ I put all of us in God’s hands”...”It’s our ancestors dying wish”. For anyone who needed the Twi translation for the last statement
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I love you brother 🖤✊🏾
🖤🖤🖤🖤❤❤❤❤❤
This really hit straight through my soul
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holy moly.
Awesome
Bless up
This is some deep shxt 👏🏽
Truely
Wowwwwww❤️
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deep
What languages was he speaking in the poem? I want to preform it at my schools speech competition and I need to work on the pronunciation😅
Twi 😊
The diaspora must unite or fall forever.
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